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• Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-2nd District, bucked her party’s leaders and voted against several measures blocking President Obama’s executive action on immigration.

• At a Democratic congressional caucus retreat in Baltimore, Rep. David Price, D-4th District, is one of many attributing the party’s sinking fortunes to Republican-dominated gerrymandering.

• Mark your calendars: The Republican National Committee announced its 2016 presidential nominating convention will take place July 18-21 in Cleveland. Democrats haven’t decided where their convention will be, or when it will happen.

• National Journal reports that the National Republican Senatorial Committee says Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., may be the most vulnerable senator facing re-election in 2016.